ANTH 1150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Social Stratification, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Old Age
6 Mar 2015
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Principles beside kinship and marriage used by people to organize societies: gender, age, common interest, position to handle problems that cannot be handled by marriage. Some cultures use stratification to enjoy preferential treatment for themselves at the expense of others. Common-interest associations- formed to deal with specific problems and range from fully voluntary to compulsory. Have existed since early farming villages 1000"s of years ago and are prominent in modern+ industrial societies. Social stratification- division of society into two or more groups of people that do not share equally in wealth, power or prestige, age, gender, class, ethnicity or race. Race can be used a social category-validity examined in this chapter. Iroquoian people of huron, southern ontario- separate but equal accurately describes relations between sexes in this community neither sex is dominant or submissive over the other. Women: are sedentary and stay in their community- take care of children and farming. Considered sustainers of life , they headed longhouses.
